Blog Category: information technology

Let's review Rackspaces fanatical support promise, does it live up to the hype?

07 May 2012

When it comes to opening up a web business of any type, a website is needed. More often than not, you’re going to find that simply having a free blog is not nearly enough to get the job done. You need flexibility and adaptability. You need to be able to format your site for the mobile market, and you’re probably going to want to get in the cloud as soon as you get your feet under you. This means finding a managed hosting option with plenty of features, an affordable price, and with great support.

This is why a service like Rackspace ranks so highly amongst web business startups. Currently, Rackspace is one of the biggest names in the game, hosting dedicated and shared and virtual servers for nearly 200-thousand businesses. Their cloud hosting is amongst the most highly rated around, claiming to get any business up and running in a matter of minutes, with tons of space, an easy interface and scalability. Most of all, however, Rackspace is prized for its support.

Of course, most of the support hype comes from Rackspace itself, claiming that they offer “fanatical support.” But you wouldn’t expect any company to say otherwise, would you? So, let’s examine Rackspace’s support to see what’s so “fanatical” about it.

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How Do Websites use Cookies?

23 October 2011

If you're operating or interested in operating any type of website business, you would do well to learn about various terminology of the web and also about the many tricks of the trade used in order to calculate data. One piece of information that's great to know about before getting started is the website cookies.

If you've ever visited a website, then you've probably had a cookie on your computer. Simply put, a website cookie is a small piece of information, usually delivered in the form of a file, that's less than 250 characters.

When a visitor loads up a website, this cookie is sent to their computer. Unless the browser is cleaned and cookies are dumped, this cookie will be given back to the server the next time this person logs on to that particular website.

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